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CreativeGIRL: Mixed Media Techniques for an Artful Life

Find your artistic creativity with delicate doodles, big colors and lavish layers!CreativeGIRL features art projects that teach you how to draw and paint your story using pencils, watercolor paints and simple mixed-media supplies. Danielle Donaldson shows you how to draw the pretty pictures from your imagination, infuse your art with delightful color combinations and work through creative frustration …

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Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter

From New York Times best-selling author of the Dinotopia series, James Gurney, comes a carefully crafted and researched study on color and light in paintings. This art instruction book will accompany the acclaimed Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist.James Gurney, New York Times best-selling author and artist of the Dinotopia series, follows Imaginative Realism with his …

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The Complete Watercolorist’s Essential Notebook: A treasury of watercolor secrets discovered through decades of painting and experimentation

This special 10th-anniversary collection combines two of the best-loved North Light watercolor guides available: The Watercolorist’s Essential Notebook and The Watercolorist’s Essential Notebook: Landscapes. Clarifying and simplifying the various aspects of painting with watercolor, Gordon MacKenzie’s The Complete Watercolorist’s Essential Notebook will encourage and challenge you with new possibilities.Rather than a list of rules, this is a collection …

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The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting: Techniques for Rendering Sky, Terrain, Trees, and Water

A landscape painting guide for oil painters that breaks landscapes down into component elements from nature, and showcases tools and techniques used by classic and modern oil painters for bringing these scenes to life.     Landscape painting is one of the most popular subjects for painters working in the medium of oils–from classic masters to contemporary artists. In The Elements of …

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California’s Wild Edge

A new collection from the artist behind Tamalpais Walking and The High Sierra of California This new volume captures the beauty of the California coast from Mendocino, Point Reyes, and the San Francisco Bay down through Carmel, Big Sur, Santa Barbara, and Santa Monica. Woodcut artist Tom Killion’s prints combine exquisite color with dynamic composition to …

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The Oil Painting Course You’ve Always Wanted: Guided Lessons for Beginners and Experienced Artists

In The Oil Painting Course You’ve Always Wanted, author Kathleen Staiger presents crystal clear, step-by-step lessons that build to reinforce learning. Brush control, creating the illusion of three dimensions, foolproof color mixing, still-life painting, landscapes, and portraits–every topic is covered in clear text, diagrams, illustrations, exercises, and demonstrations. Staiger has taught oil painting for more than thirty-five years; …

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